South Daytona in Volusia County, Florida — The American South (South Atlantic)

Giant Ground Sloth

By AGS Media, July 30, 2011

1. Giant Ground Sloth Marker

Inscription. On this site in 1975 was found the best preserved and most complete giant ground sloth ever found in North America.

The sloth weighed three to five tons, stood thirteen feet tall and was a vegetarian.

An estimated fifty species of animals were unearthed approximately twelve feet below the surface of the ground. The age of these findings is estimated to be 130,000 years old.

Location. 29° 9.137′ N, 81° 0.988′ W. Marker is in South Daytona, Florida, in Volusia County. Marker can be reached from South Nova Road south of Reed Canal Road, on the right when traveling north. Click for map. The marker is located on the grounds of Reed Canal Park, a public park of the City of South Daytona. Marker is at or near this postal address: 919 Reed Canal Road, Daytona Beach FL 32119, United States of America.

The nearby gardens feature this rather ill-proportioned model of a giant ground sloth, one of the remnants of a 1950's era tourist attraction (see nearby "Bongoland" historical marker).

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